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Monthly Archives: January 2014

On January 24, I attended a 1-day data science symposium at Harvard University with the fun title ‘Weathering the Data Storm‘. I imagine being in a tiny boat on the endless beautiful sea of data, and then a big data storm comes up! Numbers and pieces of text fly through the air… they hit me hard in the face like hail, pile up in my boat… and I’m in dire need of some clever algorithms to take care of all that data, so that I won’t get hurt, my boat won’t sink! Continue reading →

In this paper we investigate the effect of species interactions when two species have to expand into new territory. Such territorial expansions happen a lot currently, because many species are forced to shift their territories in response to climate change – for example, if it gets too hot for them in their current habitat, they move north. Continue reading →

On Jan 7, I attended the Critical Data conference at MIT (an event coupled to the Critical data hackathon the weekend before). It was all about big data in healthcare, with speakers from both the medical and the data science communities, and from both academia and industry. Everyone agreed that there is great potential in the enormous amounts of data than can – and are – collected to improve the current healthcare system. Continue reading →